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Re: RFC: Lose use of $ and . in [cd]tor labels
- To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- Subject: Re: RFC: Lose use of $ and . in [cd]tor labels
- From: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- Date: 23 Mar 2001 11:17:06 +0000
- Cc: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <3AB8174F.AC842AA7@albatross.co.nz><u9n1ad67v1.fsf@casey.cambridge.redhat.com><3ABACF9A.5ACDF9D9@waitaki.otago.ac.nz>
>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:
> Jason Merrill wrote:
>> Would it be appropriate to change the Java frontend to stop using '$' in
>> names that get mangled?
> Not really: the use of "$" as a nested class namespace separator (and as a
> marker for artificial fields/parameters) is a part of the Java bytecode
> ABI.
OK, that's a good reason. Are they all represented as 'name$'?
Jason